Wash-boiler



(No Model.)

M. K. OGOBOOK.

WASH BOILER.

Patented Mar. 12, 1889" 351 aka M4 213) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MALINDA KNOPPOCOBOCK, OF MAPLE RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WASH-BOILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,432, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed J ly 25, 1888:

To all whom it may conceive:

Be it known that l, )IA'LINDA KNoPP 060- BOOK, a citizen of the linited States, residing at Maple Rapids, in the county of Clinton and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in ashing-Machinos, of

moral of the device from the wash-boiler and which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improven'ients in washing-machines; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, which fully '1 illustrate my invention Figure l. is a vertical longitudinal section of a wash-boiler, showing my improved 7 device in operative position 3 previously rubbed with soap, are then placed therein. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of my device removed from the boiler and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the same.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates a wash-boiler of ordinary construction.

B designates my improved device, consist- 5 ing, essentially, of a perforated sheet-metal false bottom made in a number of sections or members, (I, adjustably connected together.

The sections or members of the false bottom 1' ily adjusted to the dimensions of the boiler and fitted snugly within the same.

G designates a key secured to one of the sections, near the center of the device, by a chain, H, and is adapted to engage a staple or Serial No. 281,011. (No model) keeper, J inserted through the centrally-registering perforations of all the sections and thereby prevent the same slipping from aposition to which it has been adjusted. The diagonally-opposite corner sections are provided with handles 1, as shown, to facilitate the realso to permit the device to be easily placed within the boiler.

In operation the device is properly adjusted to fitsnugly within the boiler and then placed within the same, as shown in Fig. 1. The boiler is then filled with water to within afew inches of the false bottom, and the clothes,

on said false bottom. The boiler is then placed on the stove and the water will be converted into steam,and the steam rising through the clothes permeates them and loosens the dirt therefrom, so that when removed from the boiler a slight rubbing on the clothes will be sufficient to thoroughly cleanse them.

My device is very cheap and simple, and its advantages are thought to be obvious.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the perforated sections or members provided with slots, the bails secured to the adjacent members and engaging said slots, the staple inserted through the registering perforations of all the sections, and the key engaging said staple, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MALINDA KNOPP OCOBOCK.

Witnesses:

J. F. SHRAFT, EVA MARY BAUER. 

